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Cigarette smoking and risk of lung cancer in Korean men: the Seoul Male Cancer Cohort Study.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
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| Author | Bae, Jong-Myon Lee, Moo-Song Shin, Myung-Hee Kim, Dong-Hyun Li, Zhong-Min Ahn, Yoon-Ok |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in Korea. The aim of this study was to estimate lung cancer risk of cigarette smoking in Korean men by a 10-yr follow-up prospective cohort study using the primary databases. The number of subjects was 14,272 men, who had full information of smoking habits among participants in the Seoul Male Cancer Cohort Study (SMCC). Total 125,053 person-years were calculated by determining the number of days from the start of follow-up, January 1, 1993, until the date of lung cancer diagnosis, death from another cause, or the end of follow-up, December 31, 2002, followed by converting the number of days to years. The information of outcome was obtained by the database of Korea Central Cancer Registry, Seoul Regional Cancer Registry, and Korea Statistical Office. The relative risk (RR) and its 95% confidence interval (CI) values of smoking were calculated using Cox proportional hazards regression stratified on potential confounders. During the follow-up periods, 78 cases of lung cancer occurred. The cigarette smoking is the major risk factor and increases the 4.18-fold risk of lung cancer in Korean men. In order to control lung cancer, intervention of quitting smoking is needed. |
| ISSN | 10118934 |
| Volume Number | 22 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC2693646 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| PubMed reference number | 17596662 |
| Journal | Journal of Korean Medical Science [J. Korean Med. Sci] |
| e-ISSN | 15986357 |
| DOI | 10.3346/jkms.2007.22.3.508 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences |
| Publisher Date | 2007-06-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright © 2007 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences |
| Subject Keyword | Lung Neoplasm Cancer Incidence Cigarette Smoking Cohort Study |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Medicine |